Fourier and the theory of heat

Diane Greco, M. A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at The Victorian Web.

"Between 1807 and 1811, Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) developed a mathematical theory of heat conduction that was entirely independent of the caloric hypothesis, but the theory was not published until 1822, when it appeared as Théorie analytique de la chaleur (The Analytical Theory of Heat)."

Full text: The Analytical Theory of Heat (1822) by Joseph Fourier, translated by Alexander Freeman (1878), at J. M. Powers, AME 20231–Thermodynamics, Spring 2013, University of Notre Dame.

See Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat, translated by Alexander Freeman, Preliminary Discourse and Ch. I and II, Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 54 volumes, 1952) volume 45.